Structure-guided enzymology of the lipid A acyltransferase LpxM reveals a dual activity mechanism.

abstract：:A typical homing endonuclease initiates mobility of its group I intron by recognizing DNA both upstream and downstream of the intron insertion site of intronless alleles, preventing the endonuclease from binding and cleaving its own intron-containing allele. Here, we describe a GIY-YIG family homing endonuclease, I-Bm...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Edgell DR,Shub DA

更新日期：2001-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Palmitoylation is a common lipid modification known to regulate the functional properties of various proteins and is a vital step in the biosynthesis of voltage-activated sodium (Nav) channels. We discovered a mutation in an intracellular loop of rNav1.2a (G1079C), which results in a higher apparent affinity for exter...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Bosmans F,Milescu M,Swartz KJ

更新日期：2011-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial pathogen Vibrio parahaemolyticus utilizes a type III secretion system to cause death of host cells within hours of infection. We report that cell death is completely independent of apoptosis and occurs by a mechanism in which injection of multiple type III effectors causes induction of autophagy, cell ro...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Burdette DL,Yarbrough ML,Orvedahl A,Gilpin CJ,Orth K

更新日期：2008-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Brown-rot fungi such as Postia placenta are common inhabitants of forest ecosystems and are also largely responsible for the destructive decay of wooden structures. Rapid depolymerization of cellulose is a distinguishing feature of brown-rot, but the biochemical mechanisms and underlying genetics are poorly understood...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Martinez D,Challacombe J,Morgenstern I,Hibbett D,Schmoll M,Kubicek CP,Ferreira P,Ruiz-Duenas FJ,Martinez AT,Kersten P,Hammel KE,Vanden Wymelenberg A,Gaskell J,Lindquist E,Sabat G,Bondurant SS,Larrondo LF,Canessa P,Vic

更新日期：2009-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:RsbR is a regulator of sigma(B), the RNA polymerase sigma factor subunit responsible for transcribing the general stress response genes when environmental stress is imposed on Bacillus subtilis. The C-terminal domain of RsbR and its paralogues is a substrate for the kinase function of another sigma(B) regulator, RsbT,...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Murray JW,Delumeau O,Lewis RJ

更新日期：2005-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The poison frogs (family Dendrobatidae) are terrestrial anuran amphibians displaying a wide range of coloration and toxicity. These frogs generally have been considered to be aposematic, but relatively little research has been carried out to test the predictions of this hypothesis. Here we use a comparative approach t...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Summers K,Clough ME

更新日期：2001-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspirin (ASA) triggers a switch in the biosynthesis of lipid mediators, inhibiting prostanoid production and initiating 15-epi-lipoxin generation through the acetylation of cyclooxygenase II. These aspirin-triggered lipoxins (ATL) may mediate some of ASA's beneficial actions and therefore are of interest in the search...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Clish CB,O'Brien JA,Gronert K,Stahl GL,Petasis NA,Serhan CN

更新日期：1999-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A metabolic mechanism for oxalic acid biosynthesis in the wood-rotting basidiomycete Fomitopsis palustris has been proposed on the basis of biochemical analyses of glucose metabolism. There was a strong correlation between glucose consumption and oxalate production. Oxalic acid was found to accumulate in the culture f...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Munir E,Yoon JJ,Tokimatsu T,Hattori T,Shimada M

更新日期：2001-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulatory photoreceptor phytochrome controls the transcription of its own phy genes in a negative feedback fashion. We have exploited microprojectile-mediated gene transfer to develop a rapid transient expression assay system for the study of DNA sequences involved in the phytochrome-regulated expression of these...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Bruce WB,Christensen AH,Klein T,Fromm M,Quail PH

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Full-length tissue factor (flTF), the coagulation initiator, is overexpressed in breast cancer (BrCa), but associations between flTF expression and clinical outcome remain controversial. It is currently not known whether the soluble alternatively spliced TF form (asTF) is expressed in BrCa or impacts BrCa progression....

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Kocatürk B,Van den Berg YW,Tieken C,Mieog JS,de Kruijf EM,Engels CC,van der Ent MA,Kuppen PJ,Van de Velde CJ,Ruf W,Reitsma PH,Osanto S,Liefers GJ,Bogdanov VY,Versteeg HH

更新日期：2013-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a mechanism by which organisms with only a single photoreceptor, which have a monochromatic view of the world, can achieve color discrimination. An off-axis pupil and the principle of chromatic aberration (where different wavelengths come to focus at different distances behind a lens) can combine to provide...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Stubbs AL,Stubbs CW

更新日期：2016-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine and human cDNAs, related to but distinct from c-raf-1, have been isolated and designated mA-raf and hA-raf, respectively. The mA-raf and hA-raf cDNAs detect the same murine and human fragments in Southern blots of restriction enzyme-cleaved murine and human cellular DNA. The murine restriction enzyme fragments ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Huebner K,ar-Rushdi A,Griffin CA,Isobe M,Kozak C,Emanuel BS,Nagarajan L,Cleveland JL,Bonner TI,Goldsborough MD

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of RNA secondary structure on rho-independent and rho-dependent termination of transcription of T3 DNA by Escherichia coli RNA polymerase has been studied by incorporating, into nascent transcripts, base analogs that lead to altered base-pairing properties. A guanine --> hypoxanthine substitution, with atte...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Adhya S,Sarkar P,Valenzuela D,Maitra U

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major problem facing the effective treatment of patients with cancer is how to get the specific antitumor agent into every tumor cell. In this report we describe the use of a strategy that, by using retroviral vectors encoding a truncated human CD5 cDNA, allows the selection of only the infected cells, and we show t...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： García-Hernández B,Castellanos A,López A,Orfao A,Sánchez-García I

更新日期：1997-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The E2F1 transcription factor has a well-characterized activation domain at its C terminus and the E1A protein has a recently defined activation domain at its N terminus. Here we show that these activation domains are highly related in sequence. The sequence homology reflects, at least partly, the conservation of comm...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Trouche D,Kouzarides T

更新日期：1996-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins denature not only at high, but also at low temperature as well as high pressure. These denatured states are not easily accessible for experiment, because usually heat denaturation causes aggregation, whereas cold or pressure denaturation occurs at temperatures well below the freezing point of water or pressur...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Vajpai N,Nisius L,Wiktor M,Grzesiek S

更新日期：2013-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:It is generally thought that an effective vaccine to prevent HIV-1 infection should elicit both strong neutralizing antibody and cytotoxic T lymphocyte responses. We recently demonstrated that potent, boostable, long-lived HIV-1 envelope (Env)-specific cytotoxic T lymphocyte responses can be elicited in rhesus monkeys...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Letvin NL,Montefiori DC,Yasutomi Y,Perry HC,Davies ME,Lekutis C,Alroy M,Freed DC,Lord CI,Handt LK,Liu MA,Shiver JW

更新日期：1997-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Closed and pH-tight membrane vesicles prepared from hypocotyls of 5-day-old dark-grown seedlings of Cucurbita pepo accumulate the plant growth hormone indole-3-acetic acid along an imposed proton gradient (pH low outside, high inside). The use of electron paramagnetic spin probes permitted quantitation both of apparen...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Lomax TL,Mehlhorn RJ,Briggs WR

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic anthrax, caused by inhalation or ingestion of Bacillus anthracis spores, is characterized by rapid microbial growth stages that require iron. Tightly bound and highly regulated in a mammalian host, iron is scarce during an infection. To scavenge iron from its environment, B. anthracis synthesizes by independe...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Abergel RJ,Wilson MK,Arceneaux JE,Hoette TM,Strong RK,Byers BR,Raymond KN

更新日期：2006-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The p6 domain of HIV-1 Gag contains highly conserved peptide motifs that recruit host machinery to sites of virus assembly, thereby promoting particle release from the infected cell. We previously reported that mutations in the YPXnL motif of p6, which binds the host protein Alix, severely impair HIV-1 replication. Pr...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Van Duyne R,Kuo LS,Pham P,Fujii K,Freed EO

更新日期：2019-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) is a member of the family of intermediate filament structural proteins and is found predominantly in astrocytes of the central nervous system (CNS). To assess the function of GFAP, we created GFAP-null mice using gene targeting in embryonic stem cells. The GFAP-null mice have nor...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： McCall MA,Gregg RG,Behringer RR,Brenner M,Delaney CL,Galbreath EJ,Zhang CL,Pearce RA,Chiu SY,Messing A

更新日期：1996-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations induced by (+/-)trans-benzo-[a]pyrene-7,8-dihydrodiol-9,10-epoxide (BaP-diol epoxide-1) were selected by using a recombinant plasmid vector system designed for the study of transcription termination signals. The plasmid contains a transcription terminator positioned between a promotor signal and the Escheric...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Mizusawa H,Lee CH,Kakefuda T,McKenney K,Shimatake H,Rosenberg M

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bves is an integral membrane protein with no determined function and no homology to proteins outside of the Popdc family. It is widely expressed throughout development in myriad organisms. Here, we demonstrate an interaction between Bves and guanine nucleotide exchange factor T (GEFT), a GEF for Rho-family GTPases. Th...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Smith TK,Hager HA,Francis R,Kilkenny DM,Lo CW,Bader DM

更新日期：2008-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Glass formation in the CaO-Al2O3 system represents an important phenomenon because it does not contain typical network-forming cations. We have produced structural models of CaO-Al2O3 glasses using combined density functional theory-reverse Monte Carlo simulations and obtained structures that reproduce experiments (X-...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Akola J,Kohara S,Ohara K,Fujiwara A,Watanabe Y,Masuno A,Usuki T,Kubo T,Nakahira A,Nitta K,Uruga T,Weber JK,Benmore CJ

更新日期：2013-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment with neuraminidase (NA) plus galactose oxidase (GalOxase) does not cause stimulation of human thymocytes. However, stimulation can be achieved by addition of exogenous interleukin 2 (IL-2). The IL-2-induced stimulation was inhibited with anti-Tac antibody, indicating that NA/GalOxase-oxidized cells can serve...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Roffman E,Sredni B,Smolinsky A,Wilchek M

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We solve a discrete version of the classic Plateau problem, which asks for a minimal surface spanning a given curve. Our algorithm is based on a network-flow formulation that finds minimal slabs, intuitively corresponding to minimal "surfaces" of prescribed thickness. We let the slab thickness approach zero in order t...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Hu TC,Kahng AB,Robins G

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flowering time (i.e., heading date in crops) is an important ecological trait that determines growing seasons and regional adaptability of plants to specific natural environments. Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is a short-day plant that originated in the tropics. Increasing evidence suggests that the northward expansion of cu...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Wu W,Zheng XM,Lu G,Zhong Z,Gao H,Chen L,Wu C,Wang HJ,Wang Q,Zhou K,Wang JL,Wu F,Zhang X,Guo X,Cheng Z,Lei C,Lin Q,Jiang L,Wang H,Ge S,Wan J

更新日期：2013-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Programmed cell death (apoptosis) is a normal physiological process, which could in principle be manipulated to play an important role in cancer therapy. The key importance of p53 expression in the apoptotic response to DNA-damaging agents has been stressed because mutant or deleted p53 is so common in most kinds of c...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Xu C,Meikrantz W,Schlegel R,Sager R

更新日期：1995-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Various enzymatic derivatives of the murine myeloma protein IgA(MOPC-315) were subjected to hapten-binding quantitation and circular dichroic analysis in an attempt to ascertain the structural localization and functional definition of the immunoglobulin active site. The extrinsic Cotton effects observed with near satu...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Merz DC,Litman GW,Good RA

更新日期：1974-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have tested the effect of increased ribosomal fidelity on a modified version of the programmed release factor 2 (RF2) translational frameshift. In the constructs tested, the original UGA codon at the site of the shift was replaced by either of two sense codons, UGG (tryptophan), which allows a frameshift of approxi...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Sipley J,Goldman E

更新日期：1993-03-15 00:00:00